>They can make Francis shoot you in the face trying to dislodge them,
>which in context is almost as bad. :)
>
>"I was on the bottom of that dogpile, so exactly who
>did you think you were going to torpedo, Naka-chan?!"

"DO I LOOK LIKE ONE OF THEM!?"

>Ah, drop rates. The "war... war never changes" of MMO gaming. :)

Especially "free-to-play" ones that have to have some way of milking you for money.

>By extension, that makes me think of what "early ironclad" fleet girls
>would be like. The original 1870s Fusō, say. Extremely
>slow-moving, eats like Akagi, chain-smokes unfiltered Lucky Strikes.
>Lots of "when I was your age" stories. Lazy. Extremely
>clumsy. Has actual sails, though they don't seem to help much,
>and likes to brag about her retractable smokestack even though none of
>the modern fleet girls can even conceive of why anyone would need or
>want such a thing. Thinks radar is a conspiracy.

More likely they're the (great)grandmothers of the current girls, as we all know the purpose in life of our grandparents is to inspire us or embarrass us, depending on the situation.

>Heh.
>
>I'm amused that the artists can't seem to agree among themselves on
>how "old" the Akatsuki-class destroyers actually are. In some
>portrayals they look to be about as old as the actual ships were
>during the war (they were built around 1930), and in others they're
>grade-schoolers. Not that I'm advocating a strict consistency in such
>matters, because that would be dull, and besides, if we were to be
>really strict about such matters, poor Miyuki wouldn't be in the game
>at all (since she sank in 1934). :)

Well, if we wanted real consistency, then the Kongō girls would be old women, as Kongō herself is so old that she actually served in both world wars. She's actually older than Hōshō, who is usually depicted as the fleet's mother figure.

>(At this point, you can tell which admirals are the slightly iffy
>ones, because they're the ones who reply, "No... leave it." :)

"I like a challenge."